After quite a few days of perusing wine doc/source/config/mailing lists, I have found very scant references to accessing the raw parallel ports using wine.
I am running FC2 linux (up-to-date) and have confirmed I can access the parallel port (dongle) presented to VMWare running a Windows 2000 guest OS successfully ie. access to /dev/parport0 works.
I can also run all the programs included with wine-20040914 as well as some tests I wrote with mingw as well as those I compiled with VC++. The latter just cannot access the parallel port as VMWARE can though it runs normally until it can't access the dongle on LPT1.
I've tried running as root too to no avail. What am I missing? If no answer is available, can someone at least point to the relevant sources so I can puzzle it out further: I am determined.
Running with WINEDEBUG=+io yields no output yet WINEDEBUG=+all spews the world as expected.
The relevant setup options I've played with are:
ln -s /dev/parport0 ~chris/.wine/dosdevices/lpt1
When I run as root, I symlink ~root/.wine -> ~chris/.wine for convenience.
The config ( I go back and forth on [ports] as I've found different messages/doc professing both).
[parallelports] "lpt1" = "/dev/lp0"
[ppdev] ;; key: io-base of the emulated port ;; value : parport-device{,timeout} ;; timeout for auto closing an open device ( not yet implemented) "378" = "/dev/parport0" ;;"278" = "/dev/parport1" ;;"3bc" = "/dev/parport2"
[spooler] "FILE:" = "tmp.ps" "LPT1:" = "|lpr" "LPT2:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -" "LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3"
[ports] "read" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0" "write" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0"
#"read" = "0x378,0x379,0x37a,0x37c,0x77a" #"write" = "0x378,0x379,0x37a,0x37c,0x77a"
Thanks!
Chris
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